Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 64 75
Rank change year-on-year -31 +11 -21
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,871 1,967 3,260
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.92% 4.09% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 4.50% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,379 991 2,425
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,027 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £115,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.72%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71,935 43,736 84,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 90.86% 82.47%
Number of salaries quoted 49,710 24,302 59,641
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,068 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.14% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 8 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -27 1,661 £75,000 +0.67% 587
UK excluding London -57 980 £65,000 -7.14% 418
Work from Home -20 854 £65,000 -7.14% 418
London -6 744 £85,000 +3.03% 264
North of England -41 361 £69,310 -3.72% 116
South East -8 262 £65,000 -7.14% 129
North West -51 197 £75,000 +7.14% 64
South West -53 108 £55,000 -19.74% 47
Midlands -61 95 £65,000 -3.70% 56
North East +21 83 £65,000 +18.18% 20
Yorkshire -22 81 £62,500 -13.49% 32
West Midlands -34 67 £77,500 +10.71% 34
East of England -24 50 £60,100 -3.84% 20
Wales -24 44 £70,000 +34.62% 15
Northern Ireland -30 33 £62,500 +25.00% 21
Scotland -67 29 £60,000 -23.87% 19
East Midlands -60 27 £64,000 +0.39% 22
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 33 (1.76%) Confluence
2 25 (1.34%) Apache Spark
3 17 (0.91%) CMS
4 16 (0.86%) Apache
4 16 (0.86%) IIS
5 10 (0.53%) JBoss
6 9 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.43%) Camunda
8 7 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.37%) WordPress
9 6 (0.32%) nginx
10 5 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.27%) Drupal
11 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.16%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.16%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Kentico
12 3 (0.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 13 (0.69%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.32%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.11%) Shopify
7 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 988 (52.81%) AWS
2 819 (43.77%) Azure
3 333 (17.80%) GCP
4 270 (14.43%) Serverless
5 220 (11.76%) GitHub
6 181 (9.67%) SaaS
7 161 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
8 130 (6.95%) AWS Lambda
9 112 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
10 109 (5.83%) Amazon S3
11 98 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 91 (4.86%) GitHub Copilot
13 86 (4.60%) Azure Service Bus
14 77 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
15 68 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
16 64 (3.42%) Azure AKS
17 60 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
18 59 (3.15%) Amazon SQS
19 51 (2.73%) PaaS
20 48 (2.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.42%) Broadband
2 24 (1.28%) Network Security
3 13 (0.69%) DMARC
3 13 (0.69%) MQTT
4 11 (0.59%) DNS
5 9 (0.48%) Internet
6 8 (0.43%) AMQP
6 8 (0.43%) Firewall
6 8 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
6 8 (0.43%) VPN
7 7 (0.37%) DHCP
8 6 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.32%) HTTP
8 6 (0.32%) RFID
8 6 (0.32%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.27%) LTE
10 3 (0.16%) Modbus
11 2 (0.11%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.11%) SNMP
11 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 299 (15.98%) MongoDB
2 213 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
3 202 (10.80%) NoSQL
4 165 (8.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 160 (8.55%) Elasticsearch
6 118 (6.31%) MySQL
7 94 (5.02%) SQL Server
8 85 (4.54%) Relational Database
9 58 (3.10%) Redis
10 53 (2.83%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (1.71%) Big Data
13 23 (1.23%) RDBMS
14 21 (1.12%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.64%) Db2
15 12 (0.64%) DTS
15 12 (0.64%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.48%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 221 (11.81%) Git
2 177 (9.46%) GitLab
3 146 (7.80%) Jenkins
4 58 (3.10%) TeamCity
5 56 (2.99%) JIRA
6 53 (2.83%) JUnit
7 43 (2.30%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.71%) Claude Code
8 32 (1.71%) Mockito
9 31 (1.66%) Cypress.io
10 28 (1.50%) Maven
11 27 (1.44%) CircleCI
12 21 (1.12%) Selenium
13 18 (0.96%) SonarQube
14 15 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 15 (0.80%) JMeter
14 15 (0.80%) Vite
15 14 (0.75%) Postman
16 13 (0.69%) REST Assured
17 11 (0.59%) Spock
General
1 463 (24.75%) Finance
2 323 (17.26%) Social Skills
3 181 (9.67%) Public Sector
4 159 (8.50%) Banking
5 118 (6.31%) Law
6 113 (6.04%) Retail
7 101 (5.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 97 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
9 55 (2.94%) Financial Institution
10 49 (2.62%) Back Office
11 44 (2.35%) Legal
12 31 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
13 28 (1.50%) Legal Technology
13 28 (1.50%) Marketing
14 25 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.28%) Aerospace
16 18 (0.96%) Advertising
16 18 (0.96%) Games
17 16 (0.86%) Billing
18 13 (0.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 692 (36.99%) Developer
2 441 (23.57%) Senior
3 359 (19.19%) Software Engineer
4 276 (14.75%) Lead
5 256 (13.68%) Architect
6 203 (10.85%) .NET Developer
7 147 (7.86%) Full-Stack Developer
8 145 (7.75%) Senior Developer
9 144 (7.70%) Java Developer
10 127 (6.79%) Java Engineer
11 117 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
12 103 (5.51%) Solutions Architect
13 101 (5.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 89 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
15 78 (4.17%) Software Developer
16 69 (3.69%) Lead Developer
17 67 (3.58%) DevOps Engineer
18 55 (2.94%) Lead Software Engineer
19 52 (2.78%) Senior Java Engineer
19 52 (2.78%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 503 (26.88%) .NET
2 423 (22.61%) React
3 420 (22.45%) Node.js
4 309 (16.52%) Spring
5 286 (15.29%) Spring Boot
6 273 (14.59%) RESTful
7 245 (13.09%) REST
8 227 (12.13%) ASP.NET
9 219 (11.70%) Kafka
10 216 (11.54%) .NET Core
11 204 (10.90%) AngularJS
12 193 (10.32%) Vue
13 188 (10.05%) ASP.NET Core
14 111 (5.93%) ASP.NET Web API
15 103 (5.51%) Blazor
16 101 (5.40%) .NET Framework
17 90 (4.81%) HTML
18 84 (4.49%) CSS
19 82 (4.38%) gRPC
20 70 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 565 (30.20%) Cloud Native
2 313 (16.73%) Distributed Systems
3 129 (6.89%) Product Ownership
4 94 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
5 81 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.46%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.41%) Over-the-Top Content
9 44 (2.35%) Onboarding
10 39 (2.08%) Public Cloud
11 35 (1.87%) AI Agents
12 28 (1.50%) e-Learning
13 27 (1.44%) Algorithms
14 26 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
15 25 (1.34%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
15 25 (1.34%) Virtual Team
16 24 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
17 21 (1.12%) Mobile App
18 18 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 113 (6.04%) Linux
2 45 (2.41%) Windows
3 20 (1.07%) Unix
4 16 (0.86%) CentOS
4 16 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.32%) Debian
5 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.21%) AIX
7 3 (0.16%) Android
7 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 956 (51.10%) CI/CD
2 872 (46.61%) Agile
3 679 (36.29%) Software Engineering
4 669 (35.76%) DevOps
5 542 (28.97%) Full-Stack Development
6 431 (23.04%) Containerisation
7 427 (22.82%) Mentoring
8 387 (20.68%) Test Automation
9 384 (20.52%) Event-Driven
10 369 (19.72%) AI
11 361 (19.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 359 (19.19%) Infrastructure as Code
13 323 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
14 271 (14.48%) Scrum
15 239 (12.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 239 (12.77%) TDD
15 239 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
16 208 (11.12%) Clean Code
17 205 (10.96%) Coaching
18 198 (10.58%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 613 (32.76%) Java
2 501 (26.78%) C#
3 479 (25.60%) SQL
4 454 (24.27%) Python
5 432 (23.09%) JavaScript
6 352 (18.81%) TypeScript
7 119 (6.36%) Go
8 51 (2.73%) Scala
9 44 (2.35%) PHP
9 44 (2.35%) Ruby
10 43 (2.30%) C++
11 41 (2.19%) Bash
12 26 (1.39%) PowerShell
13 25 (1.34%) Bicep
13 25 (1.34%) Rust
14 24 (1.28%) C
15 15 (0.80%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.75%) Kotlin
17 12 (0.64%) Groovy
18 11 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 238 (12.72%) Security Cleared
2 171 (9.14%) Degree
3 159 (8.50%) SC Cleared
4 77 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (3.37%) AWS Certification
6 51 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 37 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (1.23%) CISSP
9 19 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.69%) DBS Check
11 12 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.48%) PhD
13 8 (0.43%) CISM
14 7 (0.37%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.32%) MBA
15 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.27%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (8.50%) QA
2 64 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 41 (2.19%) GDPR
4 38 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.44%) WCAG
6 24 (1.28%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.23%) SOC 2
8 22 (1.18%) NIST
9 16 (0.86%) NCSC
10 15 (0.80%) GRC
11 10 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.27%) SEPA
16 4 (0.21%) Data Quality
16 4 (0.21%) PSD2
17 3 (0.16%) IFRS
17 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 547 (29.24%) Docker
2 22 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.21%) Firmware
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 579 (30.95%) Kubernetes
2 349 (18.65%) Terraform
3 107 (5.72%) Ansible
4 97 (5.18%) Grafana
5 57 (3.05%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.34%) Argo
7 18 (0.96%) Kibana
7 18 (0.96%) Puppet
8 13 (0.69%) Cilium
9 12 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.43%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.21%) Packer
11 4 (0.21%) Podman
11 4 (0.21%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.16%) Rancher
13 2 (0.11%) Istio
13 2 (0.11%) MIIS
13 2 (0.11%) Nagios
13 2 (0.11%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.053%) logstash
Vendors
1 294 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 79 (4.22%) Google
3 58 (3.10%) Oracle
4 45 (2.41%) Typelevel
5 36 (1.92%) OpenAI
6 28 (1.50%) Splunk
7 26 (1.39%) Dynatrace
8 19 (1.02%) AppDynamics
8 19 (1.02%) IBM
9 17 (0.91%) Databricks
10 14 (0.75%) Red Hat
11 13 (0.69%) Adobe
11 13 (0.69%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.64%) OneLogin
13 11 (0.59%) Salesforce
14 10 (0.53%) SAP
14 10 (0.53%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.43%) Cisco
15 8 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
16 7 (0.37%) HubSpot